Friedrich Molters

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Anton Friedrich Molters (born October 3, 1779 in Hanover , † December 5, 1842 in Emmerberg near Hanover) was a German tailor, painter, coat of arms painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Anton Friedrich Molters was born in 1779 in the municipality of the Hanover market church as the son of the master tailor Jobst Conrad Molters.

According to Hanover's address books , Molters was still listed as a tailor in 1817, then as a painter from 1818, and later as a coat of arms painter and drawing teacher. He initially lived in Schmiedestrasse , followed by Osterstrasse and at the Aegidienkirche and finally in the - then - town of Emmerberg, which at that time was still in front of the Aegidientor .

Fruit variety gouaches

An apple cultivated in the Royal Hanoverian fruit tree plantation ;
Gouache on gray coated paper, 1833

In 1833, Molters received the order from the then Royal Hanoverian Court Garden Administration to produce drawings "[...] based on nature" of the types of fruit cultivated on the Royal Fruit Tree Plantation in Herrenhausen . As a result, 170 images of apples, pears and peaches have been preserved as unique specimens, which "[...] convey a variety of sizes, shapes and colors [astonish] and [...] a clear impression of the variety of varieties in the heyday of fruit growing". The gouaches are owned by the Lower Saxony Foundation and were part of the 2009 exhibition in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library “From the advantages of the manor trees fruit trees” Insights into the Royal Garden Library in Herrenhausen .

The well-known gouaches from the provenance of the Royal Garden Library in Herrenhausen are bound in several volumes under titles such as illustration and description of the apples, which are in the Königl. Fruit tree plantation in Herrnhausen can be called up online as digital copies of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library including a handwritten letter written by Molters on October 14, 1833 to the master plantation in Herrenhausen, Christian Wilhelm Metz .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Molters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Archival material

Further archival material by and about Friedrich Molters can be found, for example

  • as a note “[…] offer of the picture ' Schloss Binggenberg ' by the coat of arms painter F. Molters” in a file under the title 1. Purchase of New Masters 1931–1932, also purchase offers; / 2. Miscellaneous 1916–1929 in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , signature NLA HA Hann. 152 Acc. 2006/013 No. 55

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c All data according to information from the former head of the Hanover City Archives from 1874, Helmut Zimmermann ; compare. N / A : Royal Garden Library Herrenhausen (KGBH) - Manuscripts / Sign .: KGBH-31 / Author: Molters, (Anton) Friedrich (probably 1779–1842) [n. D.], last accessed on January 30, 2017
  2. ↑ Marita Simon: Guided tours through the exhibition / »From the advantages of the Herrenhausen fruit trees« / Insights into the Royal Garden Library in Herrenhausen / Exhibition from September 23 to October 17, 2009 (PDF document), last accessed on January 30, 2017
  3. ↑ Friedrich Molters: Illustration and description of the apples, which in the Königl. Obstbaum-Plantage zu Herrnhausen , together with the manuscript dated October 14, 1833, last accessed on January 31, 2017
  4. ↑ Compare the information from the Lower Saxony archives information system (Arcinsys Niedersachsen), last accessed on January 31, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Molters, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molters, Anton Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tailor, painter, coat of arms painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1842
Place of death Emmerberg in front of Hanover